Athletic Productivity

We briefly touched on the idea of Athletic Productivity in the previous lesson. Today, let’s take a closer look at this concept, so you can unlock this new and better approach to work & goal achievement.

The 5 Components

There are 5 components to Athletic Productivity. It is an approach to making use of your time defined by each of these ideas:

1) Practice Deep Focus

An athlete trains and performs with high intensity. Similarly, Athletic Productivity means that you do your important work in relatively short bouts of intense, deeply focused work.

This kind of productivity comes from being locked in, completely distraction free, for 90 minutes to 3 hours at a time. It’s about making real strides on tasks that actually matter.

Multitasking, mindless busywork and constant interruptions have no place here.

The flip side of intense work is deep rest: instead of being chronically stressed and always busy in a rush, you crush it for a few hours, then you take a real break.

2) Focus on What Moves the Needle

An athlete always trains with a clear goal in mind and does the work that makes a real difference to their performance.

With Athletic Productivity, you similarly always know what your end goal is and you always determine the top priority thing you need to get done.

You avoid busywork as much as possible and instead make sure you do something that “moves the needle”, gets you closer to your goal, each day.

3) Turn Goals Into Systems

The athlete has clear goals, but also a system to follow, in order to achieve those goals. Dreaming of the win alone is not enough.

For Athletic Productivity this simply means: once you have your goals defined, you break them down into milestones and then execute a reliable system, each and every day. Systems are what make your goals actionable.

4) Don’t Go it Alone

No athlete succeeds alone. Even in a solo sport, there is a whole team of coaches, advisors, assistants etc. behind every successful athlete.

This applies to work and almost every ambitious pursuit in life, too. Humans are social animals and we can simply do more and go further together than any of us can, alone.

If you want to achieve your goals, being surrounded by likeminded people, getting feedback and assistance and having some kind of social accountability makes a world of difference.

5) Show Up Like a Pro

The athlete shows up and trains every day. The athlete trains and performs on good days as well as bad.

Consistency is a huge part of getting results. For Athletic Productivity this means that you make showing up and doing the work a habit. You don’t wait around to feel motivated, you don’t wait for creativity to strike. You do the work, every day. Motivation and creativity will find you when you do this. And so will success.

Do This Next:

Today’s exercise is simple: add a scheduled time for the lessons in this course, in your calendar. For the next 8 days, plan ahead and make sure you get a reminder to show up, watch the daily lesson and do the day’s exercise.

This is a simple but important way to put the last concept into action: showing up like a pro.

Tip: schedule 60 minutes each day. Most days, the lesson + exercise will take less time than that and you can spend the rest of the time doing deeply focused work (concept 1) on something important (concept 2).

Do you see how Athletic Productivity will change your own approach to work and reaching your goals?